Saturday, July 13, 2013

A company that sells gun owners who fantasize about shooting their political opponents with bullets
the opportunity to live that dream, is now using a picture of a mass
shooting victim to promote its latest product. Zombie Industries
specializes in target mannequins that bleed when shot. One of their
newest targets is a “Gun Control Lobbyist Zombie,” which allows shooters
to imagine they are mowing down undead supporters of universal
background checks every time they squeeze the trigger.A graphic promoting this product features the bleeding target
superimposed on a picture of apparent actual gun safety lobbyists. One
of the people standing in the background is Colin Goddard,
a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre who was shot four times during
that mass shooting and still carries three bullets in his hip and
shoulder.On Twitter, Goddard asked the shooting target company to stop using his image to promote their product:

Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly members have decided they don't want employees carrying guns on the job.

The
assembly Thursday night voted 6-2 to reject an ordinance that would
have allowed borough employees to carry guns if they completed a
concealed carry handgun course.

Assemblyman Karl Kassel, the
borough's former Parks and Recreation director, said he had supervised
an employee who carried a gun before a 1996 rule prohibited them.
Working with an armed co-worker made other employees uncomfortable, he
said.

An accidental shooting was a bigger worry, Kassel said.
Trained professionals have been affected by accidental shootings, he
said.

"Over 600 are killed every year accidentally by firearms,
way more than are killed from massacre situations," Kassel said. "That's
a bigger risk and liability than some nut coming through the front
door. I really don't think it's a good idea to add guns to the
workplace."

A Warren building inspector was hospitalized Friday morning after
accidentally shooting himself in the leg while on the job in city hall.

The 62-year-old man was reholstering his .45-caliber handgun in the
men’s bathroom about 10 a.m. when it accidentally fired and hit him in
the hip, according to Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green. The bullet
split in two in his leg and both fragments lodged in his knee area,
Green said. He was taken to William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak.

“It was absolutely accidental,” Green said. “There was someone in
the stall who said he came out and asked what happened, and he said, ‘Oh
s---, I shot myself.’ He probably said some other things, too.”

Two things: It sounds like this guy had a concealed carry permit but nothing was said about that. That's one of the reasons for all the secrecy, it's not about privacy, it's about covering up the mistakes so they can claim unbelievably high safety records.

And, any gun owner who shoots himself, or another for that matter, by accident has proven his inability to safely handle firearms. My theory is this is probably not the first mistake he's ever made. If we took gun safety seriously and disarmed people every time they do something like this, the world would be a better place.

A tiny Georgia city and a national gun control group are facing off
in a legal battle over a city ordinance requiring gun ownership, with
the constitutionality of the law and broader messages about gun rights
taking center stage.The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence in
May filed a federal lawsuit against Nelson, a city of roughly 1,300
residents about 50 miles north of Atlanta, saying a recently adopted
ordinance requiring heads of household to own a gun and ammunition is
unconstitutional.

Here's the genius rationale behind the law:

"I am still firmly in favor of the law," resident Lawrence Cooper said.
"I believe that if everyone had guns crime would disappear."

The jury considering murder charges against George Zimmerman deliberated for more than three hours today before adjourning for the night without reaching a verdict.The jury of six women, who have been sequestered for more than three
weeks during the trial, will resume their deliberations Saturday at 9
a.m.The panel retired from the courtroom to begin their discussions about
2:30 p.m. and after a couple hours asked the court for a list of
evidence. At 6 p.m. they quit for the night.They were given the case after an impassioned final round of arguments
in which Zimmerman's lawyer insisted he did not commit a crime when he
shot Trayvon Martin, and a prosecutor said Zimmerman "had hate in his
heart" when he fired his gun.

I think it's possible that they'll convict him of manslaughter. Earlier I thought not, but now I figure it could go either way.

Friday, July 12, 2013

The U.S. Park Police SWAT team showed up at the home of libertarian
activist Adam Kokesh on Tuesday night and carried him away in handcuffs.
The rather predictable raid followed Kokesh posting a video
to YouTube on Independence Day that showed him loading shells into a
shotgun in Washington D.C. as part of a personal protest against gun
control.

Officers ransacked the home, but it is unknown if they found the gun
Kokesh possessed while filming the video. His housemates also claim that
officers used unnecessary force during the raid.

Kokesh was charged with possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms while
possessing a firearm and awaits an arraignment scheduled for Thursday
morning.

Zimmerman says that Martin reached for Zimmerman's gun. Since no one is
claiming Martin set out that evening for anything other than Skittles
and an iced tea -- certainly not to kill someone he'd never met before
-- even if we believe Zimmerman's story, that story tells us that the
presence of a gun helped turn a fist fight into a killing. Without the
gun, the encounter might never have happened, since Zimmerman would have
been a pistol's-worth less confident about getting out of his car and
following Martin.

The last holdout on allowing the public possession of
concealed guns, Illinois joined the rest of the nation Tuesday as
lawmakers raced to beat a federal court deadline in adopting a carry law
over Gov. Pat Quinn's objections.

Massive majorities in the House
and Senate voted to override changes the Democratic governor made just a
week ago in an amendatory veto.

Some lawmakers feared failure to
pass something would mean virtually unregulated weapons in Chicago,
which has endured severe gun violence in recent months — including more
than 70 shootings, at least 12 of them fatal, during the Independence
Day weekend.

"This is a historic, significant day for law-abiding
gun owners," said Rep. Brandon Phelps, a southern Illinois Democrat who,
in 10 years in the House, has continued work on concealed carry begun
by his uncle, ex-Rep. David Phelps, who began serving in the mid-1980s.
"They finally get to exercise their Second Amendment rights."

For one thing, carrying concealed is not protected by the 2nd Amendment. Recent Supreme Court rulings made it clear the 2A only covers guns in the home. At least that's how the law stands now.

For another thing, this new law in Illinois will have absolutely no effect on the violence in Chicago. Almost all of that headline-grabbing activity is gang and drug related. Both perpetrators and victims are involved in drugs and crime.

The law will however make the rest of the state much less safe. Contrary to what the gun-rights fanatics keep saying, more guns means more violence, not less.

Sometimes it seems the pro gun folks are against anything that might increase gun safety. They oppose it first, then come up with reasons why. For example, first they might say this.

“This is dangerous and invasive,” wrote Levi Russell in a review of the
app. “Dangerous because it allows criminals to determine where they
might steal firearms….you are an accomplice to any firearm theft that
will occur due to the existence of this app.”

Then they might say this.

Whether an app or online, publishing the addresses of gun owners is a risky proposition, experts warn.“This makes those who don't have guns an easier target for criminals.
It’s a safety issue,” John Lott, gun expert and author of the book
"More Guns, Less Crime," told FoxNews.com.

It doesn't much matter if the objections make sense or even if they contradict each other. Objecting is what's important.

A 15-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man were arrested in Osceola County,
Fla. in connection with a recent shooting spree that left two people
dead, and officials say they did it for "fun."

Konrad
Schafer, 15, and David Damus, 20, are accused in a total of 14
shootings, including the deaths of 17-year-old David Guerrero and
22-year-old Eric Roopnarine.

According
to the station, officials say Roopnarine was tricked into thinking he
was going to have sex with Rios in the early hours of July 4, but was
ultimately ambushed by the group in an attempted robbery. Damus
allegedly shot Roopnarine in the face in Roopnarine's Poinciana home and
Schafer allegedly slit his throat.

Police say the second fatal
shooting in which Schafer and Damus are accused took place in late June.

Guerrero was walking to a bus stop when he was gunned down, police say,
according to the station.

"[Schafer] thought it would be fun to shoot Mr. Guerrero," Kissimmee Police Chief Lee Massie said, according to the station.

Police
say a .45-caliber gun was linked to the deaths of Roopnarine and
Guerrero. Upon further investigation, detectives learned that a
.45-caliber Hi-Point carbine had been sold on June 24 to Schafer's
father. Police reportedly believe Konrad Schafer took the gun from his
father. The father has not been charged.

Police say Schafer and
Damus are also linked to four other shootings in Kissimmee, three in St.
Cloud and six in Osceola County.

The father has not been charged. Of course, this is Florida where it's perfectly acceptable to allow your 15-year-old mental case of a son access to your guns.

"Wannabe cop"
George Zimmerman wrongly profiled Trayvon Martin as a criminal, followed
him with a gun and provoked him into a fight that resulted in the
shooting death of the unarmed black teenager, a prosecutor said on
Thursday.

"A teenager is dead," Florida
state prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda told the jury in closing arguments
of Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial. "He is dead through no fault
of his own. He is dead because another man made assumptions. Because his
assumptions were wrong, Trayvon Benjamin Martin will no longer walk on
this Earth."

Sounding indignant, de
la Rionda portrayed Zimmerman as a predator, not the good citizen who,
as portrayed by the defense, was attacked by a 17-year-old whose actions
led to his own death.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Read this sobering article from the NY Daily News:“You don’t need a mass shooting if you want to see kids injured by guns,” said Angela Sauaia, a trauma researcher at the University of Colorado. “A good proportion of these injuries are caused by the children themselves. Injuries caused by firearms are much more likely to be self-inflicted than any other injuries.”Experts on both sides of the gun debate say these deaths are completely avoidable. But statistics show they occur time and time again, with the youth gun death rate staying steady for the past 15 years.Look, it's not as if gunloons are reproductive dynamos; indeed, the vast majority of gunloons are gunloons because they are socially arrested and have as much chance of gaining a female companion as NRA hero George Zimmerman beating Usain Bolt in a 100m race. It appears that the few gunloons who accidentally procreate are systemically killing their offspring.

What police called an accidental shooting Tuesday in the
parking lot of the Wal-Mart store along North Atherton Street in State
College sent a man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the hand.The outcome could have been much worse.

We’re glad the man’s injuries were not serious. And we’re especially glad no one else was hit by the stray bullet.

Although the man had a permit to carry a firearm, we find his handling of the weapon to be reckless and irresponsible.

Clearly, his actions were dangerous to himself and others.

Patton
Township police said the man shot himself when he attempted to pick up a
gun that had fallen out of his holster as he hustled through traffic.

The
man had been carrying bags of merchandise across the parking area when
the gun fell, and he shot himself while shifting bags in his hands after
picking it up.

The bullet went through his hand and into the pavement. He was treated for his injuries at Mount Nittany Medical Center.

Lawful gun owners and even concealed carry permit holders do this kind of reckless shit all the time. Every single day there are stories of their bumbling unfitness. The problem is they are not held accountable. Even in cases like this one in which someone is hurt, they are not held accountable.

Naturally the cases in which a bullet goes whizzing past someone's ear or harmlessly into the floowboard go unreported and ignored.

That's why gun owners pose as much of a threat than criminals do. It's time we heightened the screening and qualifications for gun ownership and especially for concealed carry.

Alaska
State Troopers say Shawn Strauss on Sunday afternoon was flown from
Danger Bay logging camp to Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center.Troopers
tell the Kodiak Daily Mirror that Strauss and fellow Evergreen Timber
employee Ricky Aschenbrenner took a logging road about 30 miles from the
camp for a beachcombing trip.They were carrying a shotgun for protection from bears.As Aschenbrenner tried to remove gun from the driver's side of the vehicle, the gun became stuck.Aschenbrenner tried to free the gun and it fired, striking Strauss.

People who break the safety rules resulting in a negligent discharge, even if they try to blame the gun or the vehicle, should lose their gun rights. These people have proven to be unfit. In almost all cases these incidents that make headlines are not the very first infraction.

Logan, 15, died early Wednesday morning at University Hospital in
Columbia as the result of a gunshot wound. He was shot in the back of
the head around 2 p.m. Tuesday at a home on West Jackson Street in
Edina. He was airlifted to the Columbia hospital.

The incident is being investigated by the Missouri State Highway
Patrol's Division of Drug and Crime Control. Investigators have not
released any information about the incident.

No details, but we can figure on a few things. In Missouri people don't like to be told what to do with their guns. They don't want to be told whom they can sell them to or how they have to be stored. They raise their kids with all the gun safety information they need.

But, when it goes horribly wrong, do they take responsibility for the mess? No, they don't. They call it a tragic accident. They tell us how statistically rare it is. And they go on their merry way.

The owner of the gun should be in jail for failure to secure the weapon properly. It's that simple.

The judge is not stupid. She knows the trial is not only going to be reviewed later but that it's being televised live. Nothing she says or does is by mistake. So why on earth would she do and say things like this?

I think she's purposely giving Zimmerman's team grounds for appeal in the unlikely event that he is convicted.

Lawyers for George Zimmerman
rested their case on Wednesday without calling the former neighborhood
watch volunteer to testify, setting up the final stages of his closely
watched murder trial for the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon
Martin.

"After consulting with counsel, (I have decided) not to
testify, your honor," Zimmerman said in response to questions from
Seminole County Judge Debra Nelson.

Curiously, the defense opted against introducing evidence that Martin
had a trace amount of marijuana in his system at the time of his death,
after fighting hard for the right to admit it. Defense attorney Don West
declined to say why.

The refuge of all guilty people who hope to get off on a technical interpretation of the "reasonable doubt" requirement is not taking the stand. Innocent people are unafraid to speak the truth.

Interestingly, the defense understood that trace amounts of marijuana in the blood do not substantiate the absurd claim that Trayvon Martin looked like he was on drugs. That little bit of racial profiling along with the hateful observation that "these fucking punks always get away with it," should be enough to convict Zimmerman, but it probably won't be. The defense threw enough shit on the wall, some of it will stick.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

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In this file photo, a young student displays a sign referring to handgun
violence during a public rally sponsored by the Illinois Council
Against Handgun Violence outside the Kluczynski Federal Building on Oct.
20, 2004, in Chicago.
Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images

On Saturday, the New York Daily Newsreported
that, since Newtown, at least 40 children 12 and under have died in
“accidental” shootings—ones in which the child either shot himself or
was shot by another child. Make that 41: On Sunday night a 4-year-old
Ohio boy apparently shot and killed himself
with an unsecured gun while his 1- and 5-year-old siblings watched.
Police report that three handguns were found in the room where Raytwon
Briggs was shot. It’s not yet clear who owned the guns, or how they were
stored, or whether anyone will be charged in the matter.

If you read this blog often, you know what’s coming next. All
together now: Accidental child shootings are almost never accidents.

I know I say this every week, and I’m sorry to be repetitive, but
what can I do—people keep making the same mistakes. When it comes to
firearm safety, negligent gun owners create their own bad luck. It’s my
contention that these sorts of shootings often constitute criminal
negligence, and that the relevant parents and guardians ought to be
prosecuted, if only to send the message that society will not and should
not stand for a cavalier approach to gun safety when children are
involved.

A 24-year-old North Richland Hills man was fatally wounded Saturday
night after a shotgun being handled by a friend accidentally discharged,
sheriff’s officials said.

Ryan Madson had been in another room of
the residence when a pellet from the buckshot traveled through the
room’s sheetrock, striking him in the head, said Terry Grisham, a
spokesman with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.

Grisham
said several people were at the residence in the 7700 block of Peden
Road in unincorporated Tarrant County when the shooting occurred about 8
p.m.

Grisham said statements were taken from several witnesses but no arrests were made.

“All
witnesses were in agreement that the shooter and victim were in
separate rooms of the dwelling,” Grisham said. “We don’t believe at this
point there was any criminal intent. Right now we don’t expect charges
to be filed.”

A Cleveland man accused of shooting a dog tied to a tree in Cleveland
Heights was sentenced today in federal court to almost 23 years in
prison on related firearms charges.

At the end of a four-day trial in April, a jury took 45 minutes to
convict the 42-year-old tattoo artist of being a felon in illegal
possession of a gun and ammunition.

The two firearms charges stemmed from accusations that Clements tied a
bullmastiff to a tree in a Cleveland Heights park last November and
then fired four shots at the dog, striking the animal twice.

At today's hearing, Clements denied that the gun and ammunition belonged to him and blamed a friend for shooting the dog.Clements
has spent 16 years in prison for two rapes, aggravated robbery, drug
trafficking, drug possession and receiving stolen property.

Maybe we should give this guy the same benefit of the doubt many people are giving George Zimmerman. After all those years in prison, perhaps he's learned his lesson. Maybe his friend really did shoot the dog. And let's face it, no one should be punished for exercising his god-given, basic-human, 2nd-amendment-protected right to own a gun.

Mental health advocates are worried that the privacy of people who
have received treatment for their illnesses could be jeopardized by a
White House push to expand a database used to run background checks on
gun buyers.

President Barack Obama said he wants to see state governments
contribute more names of people barred from buying guns to the database,
part of a sweeping set of executive actions he announced after a gunman
killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in
Newtown, Connecticut, in December.

States are encouraged to report to the database the names of people
who are not allowed to buy guns because they have been involuntarily
committed to a mental hospital, or have been found to have serious
mental illnesses by courts.

Many states do not participate. So the administration is looking at
changing a health privacy rule - part of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - to remove one potential
barrier.

The Health and Human Services Department has not released a detailed
proposal outlining possible changes to HIPAA. When it asked for
comments on the idea, it was flooded with more than 2,000 letters and
e-mails.

Many of the comments were from gun rights advocates, but a
surprising number were from mental health professionals and advocates.

Health care professionals are sympathetic to Obama's goal of
reducing gun violence, but worry that the privacy rule proposal could
discourage people with mental illness from seeking treatment.

There are two problems. Some people may be discouraged from getting the help they need, even though the reporting affects those involuntarily committed not those seeking help on their own. And, there may be some cases of formerly ill people who have recovered and no longer pose a threat.

My opinion is we'll just have to work around those two problems, the first one through education. The second one may just be the cost of doing business.

As expected, the defense team is producing witnesses that will further the chances of a Zimmerman acquittal.

What's your opinion? Mine is that George Zimmerman is guilty of manslaughter. He pursued Martin against the advice of the police dispatcher, thereby initiating the fight. He started getting the worst of it and pulled out his trusty gun, killing an unarmed man. I don't believe his life was in danger or that he believed it was. He did what any fear-driven, insecure, wannabe tough guy gun owner would do in a similar situation.

That's why these guys are dangerous and should be much better screened and qualified.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Harrison County Prosecutor Joe Shaffer said Tuesday he will seek
criminal indictment of a Jarvisville woman who shot her 11-year-old
grandson to death while firing a weapon in the dark at suspected
intruders.

One of the bullets from the .40-caliber handgun pierced the wall of her
son's home about 200 yards away, striking William Owens in the chest
as he lay in bed.

Shaffer said it was a difficult but necessary decision in a case that
could have resulted in injuries to people other than the child. He said
he will ask a grand jury to consider charges against 57-year-old Tina
Owens when it meets in September.

"It's an important public issue, particularly concerning the
responsibility that comes along with exercising your Second Amendment
rights," Shaffer said. "I would like 16 Harrison County citizens to
consider that."

How much you wanna bet this is bargained down to a near nothing and grandma keeps her precious guns? That's my bet.

A man who shot a city speed-enforcement van last year pleaded no
contest in court Wednesday to charges connected to the shooting and a
subsequent police chase around downtown Santa Fe.

Scott Powell, 65, will serve about 18 months of unsupervised
probation, after which he can receive a conditional discharge, which
would erase the convictions from his record, according to a copy of the
plea agreement. The charges to which he pleaded are criminal damage to
property; resisting, evading or obstructing an officer; and careless
driving. The plea took place before state District Judge Mary Marlowe
Sommer.

Even when gun owners are arrested and charged for their crimes, they often plead to lesser charges and make deals like this one. This ensures that they will be able to keep their precious guns and misbehave another day.

The defense also called a gym owner, Adam Pollock, who told the jury
Zimmerman was "soft" and lacked proficiency in fighting after taking
classes in grappling and boxing for a year.

Although Zimmerman lost 50 to 80 pounds (22 to 36 kg), he lacked the
muscle or fighting skill to train against an opponent in the ring, he
said.

The testimony could be helpful in explaining how Zimmerman, at
around 200 pounds (90 kg), could have lost a fight to Martin, who
weighed 158 pounds (71 kg) at his autopsy. Since his arrest, Zimmerman
has ballooned to more than 300 pounds (136 kg) due to what his lawyer
called the stress of going on trial.

Many gun owners, especially the wannabe-cop types, figure there's no need to stay in shape. The gun gives them all the protection they need. There's a reason for the stereotype.

In a defeat for the prosecution, Judge Debra Nelson ruled that
defense lawyers can introduce evidence that Martin had the active
ingredient of marijuana in his system when he was killed.

Toxicology tests showed a THC in Martin's system, and Zimmerman told
a police operator just before the shooting that Martin "looks like he's
on drugs."

The prosecution argued the evidence was prejudicial, and the defense
countered that it was relevant given Zimmerman's observation that
Martin could be on drugs.

Medical Examiner Shiping Bao initially reported the THC level was
too slight to affect Martin, but Bao testified outside the jury's
hearing last week that his further research in preparation for the trial
indicated the drug might have had a slight but unknown effect.

Monday, July 8, 2013

Andy Murray has spoken publicly for the first time about narrowly
escaping the Dunblane massacre, and said he hoped his success has helped
the town to recover from the tragedy.

He said
the incident had affected him deeply, but hoped his triumphs on the
tennis court had had a positive influence on the town.

“At the time, you have no idea how tough something like that is, as you start to get older you realise,” he said.

“It’s
something I’ve never really spoken about since I went on tour, since I
began getting asked a lot about it by the press, because it’s something
that was obviously for all of my family, and the town.

Murray,
and elder brother Jamie were pupils at Dunblane Primary School where
Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and one teacher on March 13, 1996,
opening fire on a class of five and six-year-olds in the gymnasium with
four handguns.

Twenty-one-year
old Luis Sanchez was arrested around 10:30 Wednesday night and charged
with felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.Clark
County Sheriff Bart May says Sanchez and the 17-year-old minor had
gotten off work around 4:00 Tuesday afternoon when he pulled a .22
caliber rifle out of the van, pointed the rifle which he was thought was
unloaded towards the boy and pulled the trigger. The rifle fired and a
round struck the boy. The juvenile sustained non-life threatening injuries and remains at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in stable condition. Sanchez was booked into the Clark County Jail and has a bond of $20,000.

A new Kansas law allowing gun owners to carry weapons in public
buildings, including schools, has thrust a major Des Moines-based
insurer into the national gun control debate.

The EMC
Insurance Cos. insures 85 percent to 90 percent of all Kansas school
districts and has refused to renew coverage for schools that permit
teachers and custodians to carry concealed firearms on their campuses
under the new law, which took effect July 1. It's not a political
decision, but a financial one based on the riskier climate it estimates
would be created, the insurer said.

"We've been writing
school business for almost 40 years, and one of the underwriting
guidelines we follow for schools is that any on-site armed security
should be provided by uniformed, qualified law enforcement officers,"
said Mick Lovell, EMC's vice president for business development. "Our
guidelines have not recently changed."

In the gun-rights debate it's really difficult to find an objective opinion. But here's one. These guys have no stake in the debate, per se. They're only interest is making money and they understand that concealed carry teachers and custodians would make for a "riskier climate."

Sunday, July 7, 2013

A Park Police officer, right, arrests Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans
Against the War, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2006, in Lafayette Park across from
the White House in Washington, after he put up anti-war posters. (AP
Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Adam Kokesh–self-described “libertarian propagandist,” Iraq war veteran, and host of the online show Adam vs. The Man–seems
to have carried out his promise to buck Washington D.C.’s gun laws and
load a shotgun in the district’s Freedom Plaza during an apparent
one-man July 4th protest against the government.

In a video titled, “Open Carry March on DC a Success,” posted on
Kokesh’s YouTube account Thursday, the 31-year-old packs bullets into a
shotgun while simultaneously reciting the last few lines of his “Final American Revolution Pledge of Resistance,” posted on his blog.

“We will not be silent, we will not obey, we will not allow our
government to destroy our humanity,” says Kokesh. “We are the final
American Revolution. See you next Independence Day.”

A man suffered minor injuries shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday when he
fell asleep on his back porch with a loaded handgun and accidentally
shot himself in the midsection, authorities say.

According to the
Mitchell Police Division, the 34-year-old man was sitting alone in a
lawn chair on the back porch of his residence, located in the 400 block
of East Ninth Avenue, when a family member turned on the porch light and
opened a nearby door. Startled by the light and noise, the man woke up
and unintentionally pulled the handgun’s trigger and shot himself.

You see, this is what we've got out there. Among the huge group of people called lawful gun owners many of them think like this guy. He thought it's perfectly all right to sit on the back porch, gun in hand, FINGER ON THE TRIGGER, and fall asleep.

Associate Medical Examiner Shiping
Bao told jurors Friday that Martin was alive from one to 10 minutes
after he was shot in the heart by Zimmerman. Later, he conceded that his
testimony was different from a deposition he gave last year in which he
said the teen lived one to three minutes after the gunshot. During a
prickly cross-examination, Bao said it was possible Martin may have been
able to move after being shot. That is important because Martin's arms
are positioned differently in a photo than the way Zimmerman described
them being after he fired the shot.

Zimmerman lied about almost everything. Innocent good guys who are forced to defend themselves don't do that. Guilty vigilante-minded killers who are also stupid do.